VMware Contract Job Trends in Surrey

VMware
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 29 18
Rank change year-on-year -17 -11 +41
Contract jobs citing VMware 3 26 66
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.85% 5.47% 8.55%
As % of the Vendors category 1.60% 10.88% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 19 39
10th Percentile - £223 £294
25th Percentile £475 £250 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £343 £560
Median % change year-on-year +45.99% -38.84% +29.48%
75th Percentile £525 £441 £653
90th Percentile - £525 £680
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £50.54
25th Percentile - - £58.57
Median hourly rate £32.77 - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £96.39 £29.28 £60.00
% change year-on-year +229.16% -51.20% +135.29%

All Vendors
Surrey

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 187 239 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 53.28% 50.32% 49.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 163 302
10th Percentile £195 £203 £195
25th Percentile £204 £261 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £554 £525 £600
90th Percentile £644 £585 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 13
10th Percentile £16.71 £30.62 £36.50
25th Percentile £20.80 £45.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +0.92% +21.11%
75th Percentile £55.14 £65.25 £76.53
90th Percentile £82.54 £75.80 -
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.00 £50.03
% change year-on-year -64.91% +13.93% +120.68%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

VMware job vacancy trend in Surrey

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Camberley - 2 £500 -
VMware
South East

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) ICT Officer
1 1 (33.33%) ICT Support
1 1 (33.33%) ICT Support Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Application Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) McAfee
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft